Help! virgin grower needs help sexing plant

[tweasel101]

I need help sexing this plant. This is from a feminized seed. It has been flowering for only 2 weeks but it is much bigger than the others and it looks different. Is it a male or a female?

tweasel101 Reviewed by tweasel101 on 09-09-2008. Help! virgin grower needs help sexing plant I need help sexing this plant. This is from a feminized seed. It has been flowering for only 2 weeks but it is much bigger than the others and it looks different. Is it a male or a female? Rating: 5

[brainfood33]

Hi there.

Looks male to me due to what appears like clusters of balls in the second pic at the pair of nodes next to the stem, 2 from the top.

If you can get a closer pic of that area it would help greatly but see what others say.

You say they were feminized seeds?
I have read that they are born from hermaphrodite plants and therefore will produce hermie plants which is what could be the case here.

If it is female, by now you should be seeing enough pairs of small white hairs at the node interludes to be confident of her sex.

[daihashi]

Looks like a male plant.. or a hermie plant that is more on the male side.

[stinkyattic]

Just out of curiosity, what seed company and what strain is it?

Looks like a male or a male-dom hermi.
Fem seeds are all from hermaphrodite pollen donors, but better quality fem seeds come from a plant that was vERY DIFFICULT to get to herm, meaning that it will not turn herm under normal growroom conditions. A couple seed houses have suffered serious setbacks in their reputation from not checking to see how hard it is for the offspring to turn.

Edit: Even if you ARE a virgin, don't sexytime your plants

[illnillinois]

:birthday::yippee:

its a boy

[tweasel101]

This plant is BC sweet dreams from the bc bud depot. Are all the plants likely to turn out like this? Should I pull it or wait and see what the others look like? Here are some other photos. I tried to zoom in so you can see the detail on the internodes but my camera is not designed for macro pictures. If this plant is a male or a herm is there a possibility it has already fertilized the other plants? Thanks for your help.

[illnillinois]

play around with it if its legal, otherwise, Cut it off at the stem.. Dont risk the pollen contamination..
imo:blueknife:

[DTRave420]

BC Bud SweetDreams!!!Can't FKN be...They take up two pages in a canna mag with a chick on a pole and another kneeling on buds...

Or whatever,I'm not trying them...

Feminized growers have to keep it tight...No light leaks,no hot temps,perfect timing,no shock of any kind...:420thought:

[brainfood33]

Your new pics confirm to me that it is very male unfortunately.
I can't even see anything female about it so get rid of it asap.

I learned the difference in these forums when a previous crop of mine was entirely male and the best way to tell is that male flowers are little clusters on a small arm coming from the stem at the nodes.

Female flowers are very different as they are a pair of soft white hairs coming from the same point which sometimes looks like a tiny single ball, or empty seed pod.

The male flowers at the top of your plant look very well developed, so don't waste any time and get rid of it before (if it hasn't already) pollinates your crop.

[tweasel101]

Thanks for all of your help! I pulled the plant last night so now I only have 2 left from the 6 seeds I started with. Those 2 are female and hopefully the male was not able to pollenate them yet. And I thought the male was a superfemale! It was so big. It killed me to throw it out. Unfortunately I took clones and assuming all my plants were female I didn't label them. I have been looking at the pre-flowers with the 420 scope and I think I can tell which ones are female (I know, right. Now I am an expert lol).

My husband is also growing but his plants are sativa and the seeds came from a bag of weed bought on Maui. He also planted 6 seeds in a half-ass set up in our garage. Ironically, of his 6 plants only 4 survived and they are all female. go figure! and I spent big money for feminized seeds and grow boxes. Anyway, now I have a 60/40 indica sativa mother and a sativa mother so my next grow should turn out better.

As for the feminized seed turning out to be male, I have patched up any light leeks no matter how small they are. This particular plant grew tall fast because the lights were too far away and the stem bent in half. I used a sliced straw to support it and it did really well after that. Maybe the stress of being bent/broken in half caused it to turn.

Again, thanks for all the help. I am sure I will have many more questions in the future.